Thinking

Getting a lot of work done today, but now it's 5pm and I am ready to be done, although for some reason I feel like I should keep working. This is the problem of being a student (or working from home in general I suppose), you feel like you could always be working, or that you always should be working. I feel alternately like I have accomplished so much on the thesis and then that I have accomplished so little. Sometimes I feel both at once.

Had a wonderful video chat with some far away family last night and it was just so nice. Then today I ate my sandwich lunch while having a video chat with a far away good friend. Family on the Pacific and my friend on the Atlantic and me landlocked in between. I love modern technology. Except I wonder how confusing it is for my two-year-old nephew who sometimes asks me to "get out of the computer" or tries to pass me his toys and snacks through the screen.

The giant library made to look like a peacock. There is the peacock's head. The weather is simply delightful these days, supposed to get up to 25 celsius this weekend. What a beautiful long weekend it will be. Mind you, I really should be working. This week has been less than productive. Really need to get some writing done, but it seems like every day there has been something distracting. Today I had lunch and a "crafternoon" with a good friend. Lunch on her roof-top terrace was lovely. Then we crafted: aside from getting crazy glue all over my fingertips, I finished making a peacock feather hairpiece. Fun times. Anyway, I need to stop living this charmed life and put my nose to the grindstone. Not that writing is all that terrible or hard anyway.